

He pleaded guilty in three of the killings in 1993. In fact, it’s believed he’s the triggerman for around 36 murders during the violent 1980s cocaine war in Miami, NBC Miami reported in 2017. Jorge Ayala-Rivera was known as Blanco’s enforcer, responsible for carrying out murders on her order. She was gunned down at close range in Colombia in 2012 at the age of 69. She lived in violence and she died by violence. “People were so afraid of her that her reputation preceded her wherever she went,” said Nelson Abreu, a former homicide detective said in “Cocaine Cowboys.” “Griselda was worse than any of the men that were involved in.
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The documentary series explains that she has been linked to possibly 200 murders. What really earned her notoriety was her ruthless nature and the many murders she was linked to.

A former Medellín Cartel leader, she has been linked to the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Authorities believe she was behind the shipment of tons and tons of cocaine from Colombia to Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, CNN reported in 2012. Griselda Blanco, known as “the queen of cocaine,” “the godmother” and “mafia’s mother” was a particularly ruthless player in the cocaine trade. has rounded up all the main players from the four cocaine-crusted tales. “Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami” marks the first docuseries in the documentary franchise. “Despite the fact that this is the fourth ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ story in the franchise, it is the first story that we had hoped to tell,” he said.īut it was other stories that blasted off the series in 2006, starting with the 1980s Miami cocaine trade documentary “Cocaine Cowboys.” It was followed up two years later with “Cocaine Cowboys 2.” “Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded” was released in 2014 with never before seen footage and stories about the Miami cocaine wars. “Cocaine Cowboys’ director Billy Corben told in an interview on Tuesday that the newest edition of the franchise, which tells the story of Miami’s infamous billionaire drug lords Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, tells the tale that inspired the series in the first place. “Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami", streaming now on Netflix, is the latest in a series of documentaries by director Billy Corben, capturing the height of Miami's cocaine wars in the 19080's.
